Fatal fall down elevator shaft reported at Houston construction site

By Craig Hlavaty |
August 29, 2013
| Updated: August 29, 2013 9:08pm

HFD's Technical Rescue firefighters prepare to recover the body of a construction worker who fell down an elevator shaft at 2929 Weslayan on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Houston. OSHA on the scene to investigate the industrial accident.

Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle

OSHA is on the scene to investigate an industrial accident where a construction worker plunges to his death through an elevator shaft at 2929 Weslayan on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Houston. All workers were sent home with no other injuries.

Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle

HFD's Technical Rescue firefighters prepare to recover the body of a construction worker who fell down an elevator shaft at 2929 Weslayan on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Houston. OSHA on the scene to investigate the industrial accident.

Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle

Firefighter Jay Dummett and other HFD's Technical Rescue team members prepare to recover the body of a construction worker who fell down an elevator shaft at 2929 Weslayan on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Houston. OSHA on the scene to investigate the industrial accident.

Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle

HPD Officer works the scene of an industrial accident where a construction worker fell down an elevator shaft at 2929 Weslayan on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Houston. OSHA is on the scene to investigate the industrial accident.

This rendering is an image of 2929 Weslayan at the northeast corner of Weslayan and West Alabama.

A man fatally fell 11 stories down an elevator shaft at a Houston construction site Thursday, according to a spokesman for CF Jordan Construction.

Houston Police Department spokesman John Cannon confirms that there was an industrial-related death at a construction site at 2929 Weslayan near West Alabama around noon.

CF Jordan Construction is building a 35-story residential tower at the address.

HFD rescue was at the scene, according to Houston Fire Department spokesman Capt. Ruy Lozano.

"This is a great tragedy," said Mark Gudenas, vice president of communications with CF Jordan Construction.

Gudenas says the worker, a male, works for a sub-contracting group on site.